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Posted on 8/12/16 at 1:12 pm to tigermeat
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Ha, only those of a certain age, I imagine. Loved those guys. Only comics from my teens that I still have somewhere in the house.
I liked Trick Prickears, the only cop the Freak Bros. liked.
Posted on 8/12/16 at 1:18 pm to Langland
quote:If this is more proof, where's all the other proof?
Just more proof that they have no idea how the solar system formed.
These articles make it out like astronomers have "little idea" how to explain these things, but what that usually means is they have lots and lots of ideas and more research is needed to narrow it down to the most likely explanation.
In this case, it seems pretty obvious that this object(s) didn't form along with the rest of the solar system, and instead it was just flying around and was captured by the sun's gravity.
Posted on 8/12/16 at 1:20 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Pretty sure the have a decent idea
No. They don't. They need a different explanation for each planet.
Posted on 8/12/16 at 1:26 pm to musick
When I read the headline I thought it might have been the Black Knight satellite coming back home.
Posted on 8/12/16 at 2:01 pm to Langland
quote:Kind of, but no, not really.
No. They don't. They need a different explanation for each planet.
The explanations are "different" for each planet mainly due to the temperature and gravity gradient in which each planet formed. In other words, the same "soup" of material will form a different type of planet depending on temperature and the influence of gravity, solar wind, etc.
In general, though, the explanation is the same for all of them: a cloud of material condensed and accumulated over time into individual planets. That's all there is to it, there is no other viable explanation.
The fact that the planets appear wildly different from one another shouldn't bother you at all. Water and ice look and behave significantly different, but the only difference there is a very minute variation in temperature. Another slight temperature increase (cosmically speaking) results in water becoming a gas and possibly leaving the planet entirely, resulting in an enormous difference in the way the rest of the planet evolves. And that's just water. Every element/molecule behaves differently at different temperatures, and it should be plain to see that planets can be made of a very similar mixture of material yet end up looking vastly different.
Just think about it.
Posted on 8/12/16 at 2:11 pm to musick
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"It suggests that there's more going on in the outer solar system than we're fully aware of," Matthew Holman, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center told The New Scientist.
Hot take, Matt
Posted on 8/12/16 at 2:12 pm to musick
This is it, I'm selling it all and going out leaving Las Vegas style.
Posted on 8/12/16 at 2:15 pm to Langland
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No. They don't. They need a different explanation for each planet.
What?
Posted on 8/12/16 at 2:45 pm to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 8/12/16 at 4:35 pm to musick
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there's more going on in the outer solar system than we're fully aware of
yeah, no shite... i don't even think our brains are capable of fully understanding it all...
Posted on 8/12/16 at 8:23 pm to musick
It is V'Ger returning to the Creator.
This post was edited on 8/12/16 at 8:27 pm
Posted on 8/12/16 at 8:45 pm to musick
Look guys these extra terrestrials are pretty advanced, right? The may be a diversion while the real Death Star sneaks up from behind!
Posted on 8/12/16 at 8:50 pm to musick
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"It suggests that there's more going on in the outer solar system than we're fully aware of," Matthew Holman, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
Well no shite sherlock
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